Places bischoffgary Wants to Go

Enter the cabin of a life-sized Hindenburg replica.

Berlin's old airport.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.